The request to revise ITIS 6150

Memo Date: 
Friday, January 9, 2015
To: 
College of Computing & Informatics
From: 
Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: December 16, 2014
Approved by: Graduate Council
Implementation Date: Summer 2015

Note: Deletions are strikethroughs.  Insertions are underlined.


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ITIS 6150.  Software Assurance.  (3)  Cross-listed as ITIS 8150.  Prerequisite:  ITCS 6112, ITCS 8112, ITIS 5221, ITIS 6112, ITIS 8112, or permission of department.  An introduction to software assurance education and research.  Topics include:  the security of software across the development life cycle that addresses trustworthiness, predictable execution and conformance.  Various aspects of secure software requirements, design, construction, verification, and validation, process and engineering management are focused on as they relate to secure software development.  Students gain hands-on experience in various techniques and tools as part of a semester-long project in addition to other assignments.  (On demand)